hi http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/libpacman-proposed/gettext.diff.bz2 here is the first part of the gettext support patch it only adds the necessary gettext function calls. the advantage of this patch: - it contains most of the modifications so once you apply it, probably the other patches will apply without any conflits, the conflicting parts are contained in this patch - it's simple, almost doesn't do anything else so it can be reviewed easily the next patch will modify the build system, but that should be really a separate patch imho as usual, probably it does not apply cleanly, Aurel could you fix it up? (as you said it's not a problem if it does not apply) udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org